USS Patterson, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was commissioned in October 1911 and spent the next five and a half years taking part in exercises and training along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean area. After the United States entered the First World War in April 1917 Patterson was employed on patrol duties from New England to Newfoundland and, in May, crossed the Atlantic to Queenstown, refueling at sea from the oiler Maumee en route. For the next year the destroyer escorted convoys and conducted anti-submarine patrols in the vicinity of the British Isles, engaging German U-Boats on at least two occasions. Patterson returned to the U.S. in June 1918 for overhaul and from August to the war's end in November carried out ASW patrols off the East Coast. Laid up in 1919, she again saw active service enforcing the Prohibition laws as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Patterson (CG-16) from the spring of 1924 until October 1930. At the beginning of July 1933, her name was cancelled to allow its use on a new destroyer. Known thereafter simply as DD-36, she was sold for scrapping in May 1934.
USS Patterson was named in honor of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson (1786-1839), who performed distinguished service at New Orleans during the War of 1812.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36, later DD-36).
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Photo #: NH 99258 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Underway, circa 1912. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99626 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Underway prior to World War I, probably circa 1912 when she was commanded by Harold R. Stark. Collection of Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 480 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 100401 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Underway, prior to World War I. Photographed by Waterman. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 66330 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) In a harbor, prior to World War I. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 82571 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Underway, circa 1916. Halftone reproduction, copied from the book "Our Navy in the War", by Lawrence Perry, 1922. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102654 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Off Cape May, New Jersey, while painted in disruptive camouflage during World War I. Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98604-C USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) With several other destroyers in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, circa spring 1919. Cropped from a panoramic photograph (Photo # NH 98604) taken by Keystone Photo Studios, 817 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. Collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 76421 U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1916-1917 Second section from right (of six) of a panoramic photograph taken from the Naval Station radio tower. Among the ships present are a collier (left distance), a destroyer tender (left center) and twelve destroyers, including (listed left to right, by the position of sterns, with each ship's bow number given): Wadsworth (60), Cassin (43), Winslow (53), Ericsson (56), McDougal (54), Fanning (37), Cummings (44), Warrington (30), O'Brien (51), Patterson (36), Jenkins (42) and Jarvis (38). See Photo # s NH 76415 and NH 76416 for a reproduction of the entire original panoramic image. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Donation of MMC Jesse Forton, USN (Retired), 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 515 pixels |
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Photo #: 111-SC-7065 USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) Fitting out at the William Cramp and Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 July 1911. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 585 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) is partially visible at the extreme right side of the following view of another ship:
USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) is one of the dozens of ships listed on the following reproduction of a World War I era sheet music cover:
In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36). The following list features this image:
The image listed below is NOT in the
Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) in port, probably while fitting out at Philadelphia in mid-1911. Starboard bow (tight on the bow) surface view. The ship does not appear to have any armament fitted, but does have awning frames rigged on her forecastle. Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 24 October 2004